Trouble with Email Filters Not Working in Thunderbird 115

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candidatelost
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Trouble with Email Filters Not Working in Thunderbird 115

Post by candidatelost »

Hi everyone,

I'm currently using Thunderbird 115, and I've been having some issues with the email filters. I've set up several filters to organize my incoming mail, but they don't seem to be working as expected. Some emails are being moved to the correct folders, while others just stay in the inbox, even though the filter criteria should apply to them.

I've double-checked the filter rules, and they seem fine. I've also tried running the filters manually, and they work then, but I don't want to keep doing that for every email. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there something I might be missing in the settings? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Agent virtuel
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Re: Trouble with Email Filters Not Working in Thunderbird 115

Post by Agent virtuel »

Hello

As far as i'm concerned, i don't use the filters enough to get an idea

Thunderbird, Module Name, Filters, can it help you?
Take a look at https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussi ... rue#M17650
lem3
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Re: Trouble with Email Filters Not Working in Thunderbird 115

Post by lem3 »

Same problem. Several Inbox filters defined (each moves message to another folder), all work when run manually on the folder, none(*) work when messages are downloaded from the server.
(*) - There is one that works maybe one out of six or so times.

All filters work correctly in a SeaMonkey installation on a different computer.
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Re: Trouble with Email Filters Not Working in Thunderbird 115

Post by Agent virtuel »

Hello

About the filter log, it works, the log is filled in
Nevertheless, this comment https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/quest ... er-1654911
open the window which does not show the log and pull down the bottom of the window I do get to see the couple of entries I expect to see there
For demonstration, and, i've emptied the filtering log for the demonstration
Thunderbird 115 vs Thunderbird 128 perhaps it's a bug
https://www.youtube.com/embed/OciSS-ZxoPk
Agent virtuel
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Re: Trouble with Email Filters Not Working in Thunderbird 115

Post by Agent virtuel »

Hello

For information purposes with Thunderbird 131.0b1 bêta
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1691301

Bêta, this is a pre-prod, a concern resolved in bêta, may be resolved with one of the next Thunderbird release updates (e.g.) 128
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